Bowers named in SwimSwam: Way Too Early Recruit Rankings: Girls’ High School Class of 2027

Rob Riccobon

SwimSwam website traditional recruiting coverage with their “Way Too Early” ranks of the upcoming season’s high school junior class. Since top recruits have started giving their verbal commitments earlier and earlier, we’ve moved up our rankings to help give better context to big recruiting announcements. 

https://swimswam.com/way-too-early-recruit-rankings-girls-high-school-class-of-2027/

THIS CLASS of 2027

  • Full of versatile all-around swimmers who are strong in IM and elsewhere, especially back and fly.
  • As a result, medley is deep.
  • Lacking pure butterfly specialists
  • Only a select few high-end breaststroke prospects, but good depth.
  • Lots of rangy freestylers in the 100-500 area
  • Solid sprint class with 17 swimmers sub-23 in the 50, 20 sub-50 in the 100
  • Developing backstroke class, only a select few are competitive right now

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Paring the list down to 20 always feels like pulling teeth. This isn’t an exhaustive list of others we considered, but the top few left off the list who made the decisions on 18-20 very difficult.

Savannah Bowers – West Hartford Aquatic Team – Miss Porter’s School – South Windsor, CT

Best Times:

  • 200 IM: 1:59.96
  • 100 free: 49.46
  • 50 free: 23.13
  • 200 free: 1:48.44
  • 100 breast: 1:02.54

Bowers has an intriguing skill set with abilities in sprint free, breaststroke, and IM. The reigning two-time NEPSAC D2 champion in the 100 free and 200 IM, those two events are currently her best on paper, as both are within 3% of the 2025 NCAA cutline. Her victories at the NEPSAC state meet put her improvement on display: she won the 100 free in 51.71 and the 200 IM in 2:04.64 as a freshman, and then last season, she repeated with new respective best times of 49.46 and 1:59.96. With 23.1/1:48.4 best times in the 50 and 200 free, she’ll be a future relay asset in college swimming, and her 1:02.54 100 breast puts her in the upper echelon of this class, with only seven girls currently sub-1:02.